This species occurs on humid lowlands and premontane slopes on the Atlantic versant from southeastern Honduras, through northern Nicaragua to eastern Panama; on the Pacific slope, marginally in the Cordillera de Guanacaste and Cordillera de Tilarán of Costa Rica, southwestern Costa Rica, and adjacent western Panama. Its altitudinal range is 1-1,620m asl. Records of this species from just west of the Canal area in Panama south through Colombia to western Ecuador are misidentified specimens of Diasporus gularis, D. quidditus, and D. tinker (Lynch, 2001).